The above coordinates are false. You are looking for the ACTUAL decimal degrees N 42.abcd W 73.efgh. At this location could be just about anything - a film canister, an ammo can, a fake rock, another set of coordinates on a metal strip, anything. It could be at a mall, in a park, on a guard rail, up a tree, anywhere. Basically, you're going to have to solve this one in order to find it. The good news, however, is that once you know what kind of location the cache is at, the hide is fairly intuitive (mall light fixture = skirtlifter; guardrail = hide-a-key; fallen tree with pile of parallel sticks = obvious container, right out in the open = fake object, etc...). There's also a FTSolve prize ticket that will be well worth it.
Perhaps most frustratingly though is that you should know that decoding, if you know what to do, is at the same level of mental effort that one would do to decode by hand the standard geocaching.com Rot-13. That is, there is a simple key and simple technique and your use of paper and pencil could be limited to recording letters as you go through the ciphertext. There are no special keywords to find hidden somewhere. I haven't permuted the alphabet at all. Once you know the code, you'll easily understand the strength and clarity that it has. But, and here's the catch,...
... there is absolutely nowhere on the Internet to find a handy little ready-made tool that easily cracks this one if only you had certain information. You see, I built this particular cipher technique myself. (Did I mention that I have a M.S. in theoretical mathematics? You know - the kind of degree that is well suited for such an endeavor.) The good news is that I do intend for someone to eventually break this code... just not right away.
Once geocachers have found this cache, more hints will be revealed about how to decipher this cache. Also, I highly encourage the use of the Tenebrus Code to place your own cryptocaches once you solve it.
Right... almost forgot. Here's the ciphertext:
6826183516 0699262046 4372343765 2460232274 4484941597
8024045693 7318345669 9513557420 6064311529 8631542182
0559315441 5841469130 4817877616 4464599286 8458654491
7208597444 2877814789 5125679030 3544010085 8746695404
6260811415 7347264090 1034440264 5165954826 0808482982
0139016936 7086875449 9735175635 6669040156 982237848.
NOTE: the spaces are not a part of the code. They're simply for human readability.
I will afford you one more piece of information to help start off. The deciphered message, which has the standard-form of an English sentence (whose spaces were removed), will only have the letters A through Z.
Users beware: the following hyperlink will tempt you. You will want to know how the code works. And by visiting http://www.mutford.net/geocache/tenebrsucode.html, you'll be able to ENCODE your own messages. This means that you could even set up a geocache using the Tenebrus Code without having solved it yourself. More likely though, you'll run a number of experiments on encoding the messages that you'd like to encode to see what patterns, if any, occur. Caution: the use of this tool will satisfaction of finding the solution of this cache.
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